Cause and Effect: The Scarlet Letter Set in Boston‚ in the Puritan times of the 1940’s‚ the book‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is about a young girl named Hester Prynne who commits adultery with the town’s minister‚ Arthur Dimmensdale. Hester is married to a man named Roger Chillingworth‚ a scholarly man‚ who sent her to Boston years earlier while he settled his affairs in Europe. Years passed and Chillingworth arrives in Boston to find his wife on a Scaffold being accused of adultery
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years from when Hester Prynne stood in shame‚ wearing her scarlet A‚ holding her demonic child Pearl‚ during the day. Dimmesdale now stands alone in the middle of the night. In the first scaffold scene with Hester everyone in town saw the high reverend Dimmesdale question her as her thought to be dead husband stood there as a witness of her punishment. In the second scaffold scene Dimmesdale has no light‚ no questions and at first no witnesses. After Dimmesdale stands for a while Hester and Pearl join
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attempt in committing acts that were against the Puritan faith and the law itself. The townspeople did not see her as a necessity but as a nuisance to get rid of. Sally Buckner theorizes that Hawthorne tries to incorporate the effects of guilt‚ through Hester who is known to go through this‚ and make her a complete character‚ containing all the aspects of compassionateness‚ understanding‚ and sin. After her sins‚ the Scarlet Letter is supposed to make her a come to terms with herself. Dimmesdale‚ strives
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The Bible in The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne‚ from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ was alienated from her society for committing adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale. The bible says the man who commits adultery will suffer‚ and he will be in despair. Job 15:20‚ 21‚ 22‚ 23‚ 24 and 25 says “All his days the wicked man suffers torment‚ ... Terrifying sounds fill his ear; ...He despairs of escaping the darkness;...Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him‚ ...because he
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back then. People who committed Adultery were publicly shamed‚ and worse. Now in present times‚ Adultery is not seen as horrible‚ for some reason. For this reason‚ I believe the Social Milieu of this novel is very important. * Protagonist: Hester Prynne * Antagonist: Roger Chillingworth * Point of View: The narrator is an unnamed person (customhouse surveyor). He is obviously omniscient‚ in that he seems to know everything about the characters. Yet‚ I believe that he is also a subjective
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the forest‚ society’s rules do not apply‚ and alternate identities can be assumed. While this allows for misbehavior— Mistress Hibbins’s midnight rides‚ for example—it also permits greater honesty and an escape from the repression of Boston. When Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the woods‚ for a few moments‚ they become happy young lovers once again. Hester’s cottage‚ which‚ significantly‚ is located on the outskirts of town and at the edge of the forest‚ embodies both orders. It is her place of exile
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Arthur Dimmesdale‚Pearl‚Hester and Richard Bellingham. This book revolves on how Hester had committed adultery and has to pay her sins. Hester wasn’t speaking of who the father of Pearl(the child) was at any point. Over the books time and through the chapters Hester had eventually been found out. Pearl was isolated and alienated in “The Scarlet Letter”. Pearl had been alienated by society because pearl was the sin of Hester and was shown as the demon child. This is said by Hester as pearl is a “Great
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respectively‚ both use punishment for deception as a recurring theme. Although they do so to different degrees and in dissimilar manners‚ both authors agree that deception is a sin that requires punishment. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the heroine‚ Hester Prynne conceived a child out of wedlock. Despite the pleas and demands of the clerical community‚ she did not reveal the identity of the father. The Puritanical community in which she lived in demanded her to give up her conspirator or bear the consequences
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Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both novels‚ for example‚ examine the dichotomy between reality and appearance as well as the conflict between individual and social values. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale love each other. This love holds great personal value for them. However‚ because their relationship is adulterous‚ it cannot be tolerated by the Puritan society within which they live. Individual values and desires are submerged
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September 21‚2012 HN English 3 Colville Sympathy Essay Between the four main characters in “The Scarlet Letter”‚ Chillingworth deserves the most sympathy. Due to Hester and Dimmesdale’s tryst‚ Chillingworth began to grow bitter and spiteful. Although Chillingworth had taken a two-year hiatus‚ he still managed to provide for Hester until his return. Like any human‚ Chillingworth had feelings‚ which he showed through out the duration of the story. “Misshapen from my birth-hour‚ how could I delude
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